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Roast Wild Goose or Turkey

A roasted wild goose or turkey seasoned with flour, salt, pepper, and onion, served with a bread-soaked broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Roast Wild Goose or Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Pick and wash the goose or turkey thoroughly with cold water.

  2. Place the bird in a roaster and sprinkle with flour, coarse sea salt, and black pepper.

  3. Use strips of onion for goose.

Roast and stuff

  1. Add 1 quart of water, cover tightly, and bake at 400°F (200°C) for 2 hours.

  2. Pour off the broth onto broken dry bread and soak thoroughly.

  3. Stuff the fowl with the soaked bread mixture and return to the oven for 1 hour.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Onion + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Wild goose or turkey
Forms the main body of the dish, providing the meat that is cooked through.
Flour
Dusted over the bird to help form a browned, savory coating during roasting.
Dry bread
Soaks up the broth to form a moist stuffing that absorbs flavor.

The step that matters

Covering the bird tightly while baking. Sealing the roaster traps steam with the water so the lean meat cooks through gently and stays moist rather than drying out in the dry oven heat.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, flour, pepper, bread):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, flour, pepper, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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